Although microenterprises are the most prevalent employer in Africa, boosting their productivity remains a development challenge. Theoretically, microenterprise business associations could foster technology, improve access to inputs, pool risk, ensure coordination, and facilitate credit for...

Die Wirkungen sozialpartnerschaftlicher Strukturen werden in der Arbeit aus verschiedenen Perspektiven untersucht. Der Ländervergleich zeigt, dass Länder mit koordinierten Lohnverhandlungssystemen ein hohes Beschäftigungsniveau und eine geringere Lohnungleichheit aufweisen. In Bezug auf...

Turkey is at risk of descending into autocracy. That risk persists even though the resistance put up by the opposition Republican People’s Party following the arrest of Mayor of İstanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu has saved the party - at least for now - from being placed under a trustee and the...

This study explores how a state-based franchisee association of a multinational quick-service restaurant franchisor introduced three world-first innovations through the activation of the five dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO). The antecedents to this activation were also explored. A...

Right-wing populists present a difficult challenge for business associations. This chapter discusses business association responses to the populist right, beginning with the rationales for support and opposition. The interests of business associations and right-wing populists overlap in certain...

This paper examines the welfare consequences of a trade association in an exporting country on consumers in destination countries. We estimate a structural model of the Chilean Salmon exporting industry that endogenizes firms’ pricing and export decisions. Our results show that the trade...

Competition authorities may consider such public announcements illegal. Leaders and officers of companies, unions and trade associations’ should make specific critical analyses to assess the times and contents of the statements they issue to avoid anticompetitive practices. This paper proposes...

Portugal has made investments in several regions within the country to promote the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The primary goal of these investments is to facilitate the foundation of new firms, drive economic growth, and encourage innovation. The current emphasis is on examining...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Chinese Business Associations: Reasearch from the Perspective of State-Society Relations.-Chapter 3. Diversity and Dynamics of the Interaction between Chinese Industry Associations, Chambers of Commerce, and the Government.-Chapter 4. Research Design and...

This article delves into how nonprofit institutions, specifically Business Interest Associations (BIAs), have undertaken their Internet appearance applying digital marketing techniques. For this purpose, and using big data tools, the presence and monitoring by Internet users of 102 BIAs, with...

As the digital economy is growing in Indonesia at an exponential rate, there is a need to come up with a novel approach to regulating the activities and transactions happening in this space. This is especially true in the sphere of personal data protection, where massive amounts of personal data...

This paper describes information exchange under the Sugar Institute, the trade association of U.S. domestic sugar cane refiners, between 1928 and 1936. The Institute collected production and delivery data from the individual firms and returned it to them in aggregated form. Attempts to exchange...